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PHL Creates AwardWinning ACDBE Program through DBE Partnership PHL is owned and operated by the City of Philadelphia, and responsibility for the ACDBE program falls to two departments within the City’s management structure. By American DBE Staff
PHL concessionaire Erin Zwiercan (3rd from left), CEO of Jack Duggan’s Pub receives the Airport Minority Advisory Council’s (AMAC) Strategic Partner Award at AMAC’s 2016 Business Diversity Conference (from l-r) Bridget Biagas, Avis Budget Group; Darryl Daniels, AMAC Chair; Krystal Brumfield, AMAC President & CEO.
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he Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) has developed an award-winning Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) program with the assistance of Marketplace PHL, its concessions management business partner. The two entities have worked together to implement innovative strategies to not only meet the airport’s ACDBE goal, but to consistently exceed the goal. PHL is owned and operated by the City of Philadelphia, and responsibility for the ACDBE program falls to two departments with the City’s management structure.
The Office of Property Management and Business Development provides oversight of the PHL airport concessions program, and the Office of Business Diversity administers PHL’s ACDBE Program, ensuring that the program complies with federal regulations. The Office of Property Management and Business Development has a concessions management contract with Marketplace PHL, a joint venture between Marketplace Development Inc. and LeJeune and Associates, to operate the concessions program at the airport. Marketplace Development is a Boston-based airport concessions development and management firm operating in several // Summer 2016
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